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From: Henrik Enberg <henrik+news@enberg.org>
Subject: Re: [Gnus-FAQ] Draft 2
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 20:16:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8bmm8uw.fsf@enberg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4r8iurg9.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de>

Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> Henrik Enberg <henrik+news@enberg.org> writes:
>
>> Might be a good idea to tell the user to set proper read permissions
>> (chmod 600 ~/.authinfo) for the file if he's on a multi-user machine.
>> The same might go for ~/.gnus if  there's passwords in it.
>
> Can we tell Emacs to set the right permissions while writing the file?
> Something like M-x write-with-permissions RET 600 RET? If there's a
> function which does this, please yell.

Not that I know of.  I think Emacs uses the umask setting on systems
that support it (*nixes).


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-09 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <65szqjz6.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de>
2003-01-09  2:08 ` Frank Haun
     [not found] ` <87fzs3nprw.fsf@enberg.org>
     [not found]   ` <4r8iurg9.fsf@hschmi22.userfqdn.rz-online.de>
2003-01-09 19:16     ` Henrik Enberg [this message]
2003-01-09 20:48 ` GHERdO

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